Jess Portnoy
DevOps and software packager, Kaltura Inc

Jess Portnoy has been an open source developer and believer for the last 15 years. Prior to Kaltura, Jess worked, among other places, at Zend where she was responsible for porting and packaging PHP and Zend projects on all supported .*nix platforms. Jess also grows 3 pet projects hosted in sourceforge.

The purpose of this tutorial is to train web developers working on a Linux/UNIX ENV on production, development ENVs, or both.
Often, these developers, while proficient in say, PHP, lack UNIX system knowledge and therefore come across a brick wall when debugging production issues.
Often times, because the development ENV is different than production.
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Join Jess to talk about useful debugging tools, PHP-based apps, and some of her other favorite open source topics. She’ll hold forth on managing open source projects as a commercial company, deploying and maintaining large-scale video applications in the cloud, and open source development in general.
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